=== Easy Translator ===
Contributors: manojtd
Donate link: http://www.Thulasidas.com/buy
Tags: plugins, internationalization, translation, translator, localization, i18n, l10n
Requires at least: 2.8
Tested up to: 2.8
Stable tag: 1.0

Easy Translator is a plugin translation tool for authors and translators. (Not a blog page translator!)

== Description ==

*Easy Translator* is a plugin to translate other plugins. It picks up translatable strings (in `_[_e]()` functions) and presents them and their existing translations (from the MO object of the current text-domain, if loaded) in a user editable form. It can generate a valid PO file that can be emailed to the plugin author directly from the its window, streamlining the translator's work.

Plugin authors who want to clean up their internationalization will appreciate *Easy Translator* because it does a fuzzy string matching to highlight possible repetitions and conflicts among key strings.

Note that *Easy Translator* is **not** a blog page translator for a blogger. It is a tool for plugin authors and the kind international users who put in their time and effort to translate plugins.
If you like *Easy Translator*, you may want to check out my other plugins: [Easy AdSenser](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-adsenser/ "The simplest way to put AdSense to work for you") and [Theme Tweaker](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-tweaker/ "To tweak the colors in your theme with no CSS/PHP editing").

== Screenshots ==

1. How to launch *Easy Translator* - Where to find it?
2. How to use *Easy Translator* - The Editor
3. How to use *Easy Translator* - The POT File Viewer

== Installation ==

1. Upload the *Easy Translator* plugin (the whole easy-translator folder) to the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
3. Go to the Tools -> Easy Translator to use it.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Looks good, but doesn't work! =

*Easy Translator* is a fairly complicated program, and it is in its infancy. If you find a bug or anything that doesn't work as expected, please do not keep it to youself. Please post it in [the forum](http://wordpress.org/tags/easy-translator "Easy Translator Forum") or [email me](http://manoj.thulasidas.com/mail.shtml "Contact Manoj"). I really would like to make it work perfectly.

= This plugin conflicts with other plugins. What to do now? =

*Easy Translator* uses the PHP "super-global" variables (`$_SESSION[]`) to hold various strings and settings between your visits so that your translation work is not accidentally erased. I hope to have implemented it safely. But as any developer will tell you, there is nothing safe about using globals. If you find anything amiss, I'd appreciate it if you could let me know. Please post it in [the forum](http://wordpress.org/tags/easy-translator "Easy Translator Forum") or [email me](http://manoj.thulasidas.com/mail.shtml "Contact Manoj").

== Change Log ==

= Past =

* V1.00: Initial release. [July 21, 2009]
* V1.01: Correcting a few minor bugs (a) Author email (of the plugin being translated was set to the author of this plugin. (b) The name of the plugin was set to *Easy AdSense* (Thanks, Sub!). (c) Some corrections are needed for escaping quotation marks and line breaks in locales other than English. Will include them in the next release. (Hard to test because my locale is en_US).